-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Apr 13, 2008, at 8:04 AM, Gael Varoquaux wrote:
On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 07:59:21AM -0400, Barry Warsaw wrote:
On Apr 12, 2008, at 9:41 PM, Stephen Waterbury wrote:
I used to always set up my own Python[s] in /usr/local and put that first in my PATH, but I have gotten lazy lately, and sometimes it will bite me. ;)
On Debian and derivatives (e.g. Ubuntu) you might have even more fun. They put /usr/local/lib/pythonX.Y/site-packages on the sys.path *of the system python*! This means that you can break your system Python by installing a version of Python from source and then distutil'ing things into there. Astoundingly, this is promoted as a feature.
I want it like that. You are confusing /opt and /usr/local.
This is the way I expect things to work. I do not want to install my own packages in "/usr/lib/pythonX.Y/site-packages". This is for apt to deal with, not for me.
Actually, the solution that I believe is a good compromise is to find some other path in /usr/local to augment the system Python's sys.path with. All I'm saying is that Python itself uses /usr/local/lib/ pythonX.Y/site-packages as the default from-source path, so if Debian wants a /usr/local path, it can pick some other subdirectory path and still meet its goals. BTW, I believe Debian is unique here. I talked to the Fedora guys and I've talked to a few Gentoo guys and both seemed surprised by Debian's policy here. - -Barry -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (Darwin) iQCVAwUBSAI4A3EjvBPtnXfVAQLeagP/aCKr6WL+qvvM8vhABFxJDBbOJw1hQUQT fCUwL3bZ21a6iKiHLv5mdVBfaFjcqEmnbGqizUmTgnTuG+SaUXHNqBBG2lDCTZUF fNwWThN/TRtqO5OdknqFcfTQARtBE+YN52CpugjSmRrudZtAAdslWds8HnUP3nlG kN9J0TsEo1E= =DDbJ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----